Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-82285-5 - Samuel Richardson: Correspondence with George Cheyne: Correspondence with Thomas Edwards Edited by David E. Shuttleton and John A. Dussinger Frontmatter More information the cambridge edition of the correspondence of samuel richardson 2 correspondence with george cheyne and thomas edwards © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-82285-5 - Samuel Richardson: Correspondence with George Cheyne: Correspondence with Thomas Edwards Edited by David E. Shuttleton and John A. Dussinger Frontmatter More information the cambridge edition of the works and correspondence of samuel richardson general editors Thomas Keymer University of Toronto Peter Sabor McGill University Thanks are expressed to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Leverhulme Trust, the Chancellor Jackman Professorships Program, the Canada Research Chairs Program and Le Fonds queb´ ecois´ de la recherche sur la societ´ eetla´ culture for providing research funding towards the creation of this edition. Advisory board Paula R. Backscheider, David Blewett, Margaret Anne Doody, David Fairer, Isobel Grundy, Jocelyn Harris, John Mullan, Claude Rawson, John Richetti, Kathryn Sutherland, Janet Todd, Howard Weinbrot © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-82285-5 - Samuel Richardson: Correspondence with George Cheyne: Correspondence with Thomas Edwards Edited by David E. Shuttleton and John A. Dussinger Frontmatter More information the cambridge edition of the works and correspondence of samuel richardson the works 1. Early Works 2. Pamela 3. Pamela in her Exalted Condition 4–7. Clarissa 8–11. Sir Charles Grandison 12. Later Works and Index the correspondence 1. Correspondence with Aaron Hill and the Hill Family 2. Correspondence with George Cheyne and Thomas Edwards 3. Correspondence with Sarah Wescomb, Frances Grainger and Laetitia Pilkington 4. Correspondence with Sarah Chapone, Hester Mulso Chapone and their Circles 5–7. Correspondence with Lady Bradshaigh and Lady Echlin 8. Correspondence with Edward Young, Johannes Stinstra, Eusebius Silvester and Lady Barbara Montagu 9. Correspondence Primarily on Pamela and Clarissa (1732–1749) 10. Correspondence Primarily on Sir Charles Grandison (1750–1754) 11. Correspondence of Richardson’s Final Years (1755–1761) 12. Additional Letters, Appendices and General Index © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-82285-5 - Samuel Richardson: Correspondence with George Cheyne: Correspondence with Thomas Edwards Edited by David E. Shuttleton and John A. Dussinger Frontmatter More information © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-82285-5 - Samuel Richardson: Correspondence with George Cheyne: Correspondence with Thomas Edwards Edited by David E. Shuttleton and John A. Dussinger Frontmatter More information SAMUEL RICHARDSON CORRESPONDENCE WITH GEORGE CHEYNE edited by David E. Shuttleton CORRESPONDENCE WITH THOMAS EDWARDS edited by John A. Dussinger © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-82285-5 - Samuel Richardson: Correspondence with George Cheyne: Correspondence with Thomas Edwards Edited by David E. 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First published 2013 Printed in the United Kingdom by CPI Group Ltd, Croydon CR0 4YY A catalogue record for this publication is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication data Richardson, Samuel, 1689–1761. [Correspondence. Selections] Correspondence with George Cheyne / edited by David E. Shuttleton ; Correspondence with Thomas Edwards / edited by John A. Dussinger. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and indexes. ISBN 978-0-521-82285-5 (hardback) 1. Richardson, Samuel, 1689–1761 – Correspondence. 2. Novelists, English – 18th century – Correspondence. 3. Cheyne, George, 1671 or 1672–1743 – Correspondence. 4. Edwards, Thomas, 1699–1757 – Correspondence. I. Shuttleton, David E. editor of compilation. II. Dussinger, John A. editor of compilation. III. Title. IV. Title: Correspondence with Thomas Edwards. 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Dussinger Frontmatter More information CONTENTS List of Illustrations page viii General Editors’ Preface ix Acknowledgements xxiii Chronology xxv List of Abbreviations xxxiv General Introduction xxxvii richardson’s correspondence with george cheyne 1 richardson’s correspondence with thomas edwards 179 Appendices 423 I Verses and Memorials included in Richardson’s Copybook of the Cheyne Correspondence 425 II Note on Rebecca Warner’s Original Letters (1817) 431 III Note on the Provenance of Richardson’s Copybook of the Cheyne Correspondence 432 IV Richardson’s Index to his Correspondence with Edwards 435 V Names of those Readers to be Permitted to Read the Richardson–Edwards Correspondence 460 Index 461 vii © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-82285-5 - Samuel Richardson: Correspondence with George Cheyne: Correspondence with Thomas Edwards Edited by David E. Shuttleton and John A. Dussinger Frontmatter More information ILLUSTRATIONS 1 Mezzotint portrait of George Cheyne MD, engraved by John Faber the Younger in 1732, derived from a painting by Johan Van Diest, and sold ‘at the Great Toy Shop in Bath’ (Private Collection, by permission) page lxxxii 2 Portrait of Thomas Edwards by William Holl, Sr, after unknown artist, stipple engraving, published 1828 C National Portrait Gallery, London 178 viii © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-82285-5 - Samuel Richardson: Correspondence with George Cheyne: Correspondence with Thomas Edwards Edited by David E. Shuttleton and John A. Dussinger Frontmatter More information GENERAL EDITORS’ PREFACE Thanks to the editorial labours of the twentieth century, there are few major British authors of the eighteenth century – the classic period of the familiar letter as a genre – whose correspondence is not available in a standard scholarly edi- tion. Some of the most ambitious undertakings, such as the Yale edition of James Boswell and the Oxford/McGill-Queen’s edition of Frances Burney, are still in progress, and some of the most long-standing, such as the Oxford and Chicago editions of Alexander Pope and Edmund Burke respectively, now require exten- sive supplementation, perhaps even replacement. But there is no more anoma- lous case than Samuel Richardson, whose correspondence holds special interest, beyond its extraordinary scale and range, as that of a practising epistolary nov- elist who thought longer and harder than any contemporary about the letter as a form. Almost half of the surviving Richardson correspondence, which totals almost 1,700 letters, has never appeared in print, and barely a quarter of it is represented – with silent abridgements, conflations, and other interventions – in the early edition on which scholars have had to rely until now, Anna Laetitia Barbauld’s six-volume The Correspondence of Samuel Richardson (1804). The process of publication got off to a good enough start. Individual items began appearing in print within Richardson’s lifetime, and in his last years he took practical steps towards preparing a selected edition. Even before the success of Pamela propelled him to fame in the early 1740s, a reply he wrote in humorous couplets to a guild invitation – emphatically a rhyming letter, not a verse epistle – found its way into the Gentleman’s Magazine for January 1736. The epistolary commentaries he printed about later novels, such as his Answer to the Letter of a Very Reverend Worthy Gentleman, Objecting to the Warmth of a Particular Scene in...Clarissa (1749) or his Copy of a Letter to a Lady, Who Was Solicitous for anAdditionalVolumeto...SirCharlesGrandison(1754), were formal versions of actual letters, written and sent in response to letters he received. Richardson also included as an appendix to Sir Charles Grandison extracts from his acrimonious correspondence with